legions
Throngs beyond counting
Legions is the plural of legion, a large military unit in ancient Rome comprising several thousand soldiers.
The word now typically means vast numbers: Legions of fans waited outside the stadium.
Someone's admirers, critics, or supporters come in legions when they're impressively numerous.
Her legions of followers hung on every word.
Very large crowds
- massesBulk or populace
- throngsLarge, dense crowds
- swarmsGathers in vast numbers
- crowdsAssembled multitudes
droves · hosts · myriads · scores · armies · followers · fans · admirers
hordes
Very large crowds
crowds · droves · hosts · myriads · scores · armies · followers · fans · admirers · supporters
battalions
Large organized military units
- regimentsMilitary units under colonels
- divisionsSeparate portions of something
- brigadesOrganized military units
corps · armies · forces · troops · soldiers · infantry · cavalry · formations · ranks · columns
centurion
Roman army officer
- cohortGroup sharing circumstances
- manipleLiturgical forearm garment
- praetorianOf elite Roman soldiers
tribune · aquilifer · decurion · legate · Augustus · Julius Caesar · Trajan · testudo · pilum · gladius
- Ancient RomeRome, Julius Caesar, Caesar, gladiator, gladiators
- ancient worldancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient Egypt, pyramids, pyramid
- Classical AntiquityAncient Greece, Ancient Rome, Greeks, Romans, Roman Empire
- Ancient RomansJulius Caesar, patricians, consuls, Marcus Aurelius, Nero
- armiesdivisions, battalions, corps, soldiers, platoons
- quantitiessome, many, few, amount, several
legionshandful
Amount a palm holds
few · scattering · smattering · trickle · sprinkling
legionsindividuals
Separate, distinct people
lone wolves · stragglers · loners · independents · unaffiliated
legionsindividuals
Separate, distinct people
individual · single person · one · loner · singleton
- foreign legionMilitary unit of non-citizens
- Roman legionAncient military regiment
- French Foreign LegionMultinational military corps
- American LegionU.S. veterans' organization
- Legion of HonorFrench order of merit
- Legion of DoomAntagonist team organization